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17 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Fantastic thread bump here

https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3345341

It's weird, they've been in the SEC for years and should have observed by now that the difference between the best 'bama, UGA and occasional LSU squads and pretty much the rest of the college football world isn't just the top line talent, but the immense depth.  They are doing everything they can to convince themselves that losing young 2nd team guys isn't a big deal, when in reality it's a huge deal.  It's the same problem we had when most of our 2018 (?  can't remember) class flamed out or left.  You can't reasonably expect to get through a season with ~ 25 capable players.

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3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

It's weird, they've been in the SEC for years and should have observed by now that the difference between the best 'bama, UGA and occasional LSU squads and pretty much the rest of the college football world isn't just the top line talent, but the immense depth.  They are doing everything they can to convince themselves that losing young 2nd team guys isn't a big deal, when in reality it's a huge deal.  It's the same problem we had when most of our 2018 (?  can't remember) class flamed out or left.  You can't reasonably expect to get through a season with ~ 25 capable players.

Sure they can expect it. 

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Coming soon to Texags near you, I guarantee it:

The glory of aggy will be revealed in 2023.  These current trials, and departing players, are all for aggy's good.  In 2023, aggy will accomplish more than anyone can ask or imagine, and make everyone forget about the shortcomings this year.  How do I know?  God's Word.

In Judges Chapter 7, Gideon assembled a huge army to confront the Midianites, who had ravished the land of Israel for seven years.  Gideon's army was over 32,000 valiant men.  But God knew the pride of Gideon was in his army, not in the Lord.  

"2 The Lord said to Gideon, 'You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you.  Israel might brag, ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ 3 Now, announce to the men, ‘Whoever is shaking with fear may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.’” Twenty-two thousand men went home; 10,000 remained. 4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. Bring them down to the water, and I will thin the ranks some more. When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; when I say, ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” 5 So he brought the men down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.” 6 Only 300 men lapped with their hands to their mouths; the rest of the men kneeled to drink water. 7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will deliver the whole army, and I will hand Midian over to you. The rest of the men should go home.” 8 The men who were chosen took supplies and their trumpets. Gideon sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; he kept only 300 men."  

The next day, God delivered a victory so overwhelming to Israel, that no one could deny that the victory was from the Lord, and not from the strength of Gideon's army.  

Today aggy finds itself in the place of Gideon's army.  In 2022, aggy had strength that couldn't be denied, the best recruiting class in history, the best facilities in all the land, and a genius coach.  But God knew that if aggy won it all in 2022, aggy would think that their own power was responsible for the victory.  

So God is now humbling aggy.  God is calling away those players that are fearful, those that are not committed, those that will not bring Him glory.  This process may be scary, but God is preparing aggy for an unbelievable victory in 2023.  He is going to take the men who "lap water as a dog laps," those that are committed to aggy and God, and reject those who kneel to other things like fast cars, loose women, and tu.  With those doglike men, God will accomplish mighty things in 2023, as he delivered victory to Gideon and the nation of Israel.  We are on the precipice of God's glory, men!  Rejoice and be glad!  Whoop!

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9 hours ago, C-Man said:

aggy now down to fifth (or sixth) choice? What's Sterlin Gilbert up to?

Not bad.

Sterlin could bring Mat Maddox with him and sell it to aggy as a cow and calf deal,  aggy might understand that.  

Could be worth an extra million in salary.  

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9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

It's weird, they've been in the SEC for years and should have observed by now that the difference between the best 'bama, UGA and occasional LSU squads and pretty much the rest of the college football world isn't just the top line talent, but the immense depth.  They are doing everything they can to convince themselves that losing young 2nd team guys isn't a big deal, when in reality it's a huge deal.  It's the same problem we had when most of our 2018 (?  can't remember) class flamed out or left.  You can't reasonably expect to get through a season with ~ 25 capable players.

This will have a long term.affect.  aggy is lucky that there's a portal now, or this would've been disastrous or even catastrophic.

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22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

It's weird, they've been in the SEC for years and should have observed by now that the difference between the best 'bama, UGA and occasional LSU squads and pretty much the rest of the college football world isn't just the top line talent, but the immense depth.  They are doing everything they can to convince themselves that losing young 2nd team guys isn't a big deal, when in reality it's a huge deal.  It's the same problem we had when most of our 2018 (?  can't remember) class flamed out or left.  You can't reasonably expect to get through a season with ~ 25 capable players.

Stupid sip, losing players doesn’t matter to aggy because they got the 12th man.

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2 hours ago, 927 E. 41st said:

Especially if they did lobby hard to get it as home game!

Can't wait to tell aggys, thanks for hosting the renewal of your yearly beat downs, I would say rivalry but you have only beat us 3 times this century. Yes, yes I know you would have won all the games we did not play but you seem to lose almost all the ones we do play.

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Sitting astride The Recruitocosm with a Jovian presence is the Planet Longhorn: whose substantial gravitiational pull tugs on the heart and minds of young satellites from El Paso to Beaumont, Laredo to Amarillo. Other planets spend agonzing weeks worrying that their orbiting moons and satellites will come too close to the Longhorn sphere of influence and be forever lost. Like clockwork, several major moons are lost every year to the large Texan spheroid-- most troublingly, even those moons and satellites which once seemed to orbit only inches from their host planet. Longhorn's pull is mighty. Even intergalactic raiders who fear no one -- from FreeShoes, Daygloworange, Drunkirish and MaizenBlue -- are wary of crossing it.

To the Far East, just outside the edge of the Recruitocosm, sits the long dormant planet of Bengal -- a planet now expanding and reasserting influence on its long raided territories. Bengal's pull on the Eastern portion of the Recruitocosm is not inconsiderable.

To the Far Northwest, lies Sandaggis -- an asteroid which is finally abandoning its solitary West Texas galactic ellipses and charting a new route. No one is sure where this asteroid is headed though its course will likely miss Planet Longhorn entirely. Many believe that Sandaggis will burn most bright in the heavens right before a colossal implosion. Then it will wake up on the side of the galactic highway with a hangover, a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels and a vomit-stained timepiece, the face of which reveals that it's eight hours late to an alumni meeting at space station Muleshoe.

On the farthest Northern hinterland of The Recruitocosm is the dreaded Black hOUle, once dormant, now awake and hungry. It would swallow the whole Recruitocosm if it could -- and it has before. The Black hOUle is a piece in the cosmic topography feared by all -- even Planet Longhorn. For now, it largely avoids Planet Longhorn, choosing to bide its time, but it feasts viciously on other less formidable planets to gain strength for the Big Showdown that will one day come.

Get out a map of the Recruitocosm (you have it in your car glovebox). Look at the geography. Now draw triangles around the places where one finds the best moons and satellites. Now draw small Ptolemaic expanding circles from each planet, asteroid and body of The Recruitocosm and see where they overlap. Factor in the relative power and pull of those bodies on those iosceles full of moons and satellites. Now ask yourself: where would you NOT want to be?

Now imagine that you're THERE. A lonely astral body located directly between Longhorn and Bengal. When you stray, your favorite paths of orbit are directly between the Black hOUle and Longhorn. Every time you pass between them, you're rocked. Even the asteroid Sandaggis strafes you from time to time. Your planet is being ripped asunder and your moons are growing sparse.

Now imagine that, instead of observing what's happening to your planet and debating other courses of action, you decide that you'll simply deny the existence of The Recruitocosm entirely. You have now trascended the Recruitocosm and are moving to a more rural plane: a sort of gravy stained Elysian Fields. There is only one planet in the universe, your planet, Planet Reveille. Her moons are Forney, Skidmore and Naaman Forest. Your name is Commandante Buttpot. You have mild acne. Your 36 inch paramilitary toy soldier chest is emblazoned with medals for sodomy compliance. You grew up in a Houston suburb yet now you pretend you're country. You have named your truck. You say things like "Whoop!" and "Hullabaloo Caneck Caneck" with no hint of irony. Go ahead...scream. No one can hear you. You have entered THE AGGIECOSM

The Recruitocosm. A poetic metaphor for A&M's place in the world now an explanation of why their imagined giant sleeps sleeps sleeps. From the above:

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Get out a map of the Recruitocosm (you have it in your car glovebox). Look at the geography. Now draw triangles around the places where one finds the best moons and satellites. Now draw small Ptolemaic expanding circles from each planet, asteroid and body of The Recruitocosm and see where they overlap. Factor in the relative power and pull of those bodies on those iosceles full of moons and satellites. Now ask yourself: where would you NOT want to be?

Now imagine that you're THERE. A lonely astral body located directly between Longhorn and Bengal. When you stray, your favorite paths of orbit are directly between the Black hOUle and Longhorn. Every time you pass between them, you're rocked. Even the asteroid Sandaggis strafes you from time to time. Your planet is being ripped asunder and your moons are growing sparse.

Now imagine that, instead of observing what's happening to your planet and debating other courses of action, you decide that you'll simply deny the existence of The Recruitocosm entirely. You have now trascended the Recruitocosm and are moving to a more rural plane: a sort of gravy stained Elysian Fields. There is only one planet in the universe, your planet, Planet Reveille. Her moons are Forney, Skidmore and Naaman Forest. Your name is Commandante Buttpot. You have mild acne. Your 36 inch paramilitary toy soldier chest is emblazoned with medals for sodomy compliance. You grew up in a Houston suburb yet now you pretend you're country. You have named your truck. You say things like "Whoop!" and "Hullabaloo Caneck Caneck" with no hint of irony. Go ahead...scream. No one can hear you. You have entered THE AGGIECOSM

 

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20 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Jimbo has already found his newest OC, and got him signed to a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract:

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Reminds me of a doc I watched last night on Netflix.  The whole "untold" series is awesome, particularly the Manti Teo story, the Nolan Ryan one, and this one.  

"Untold: Crime and Penalties" details the Galante family purchasing a UHL team ("Danbury Trashers").  Galante is supposedly the model for Tony Soprano.  Galante made his 17-year old son the President and GM of the team.  Awesome, ridiculous antics ensue.  All true.  

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https://www.netflix.com/title/81026438

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